Seems like a perfectly reasonable way to keep any more Bushes out of the White H…


Seems like a perfectly reasonable way to keep any more Bushes out of the White House

Reshared post from +Jim Fawcette

Good Bye, Texas, but First Some Final Business
don't come back whining when you're annexed to Chihuahua

Good take by LAT's David Horsey on setting conditions before Texas waves bye, bye. His final punch line is priceless. I'd add another condition: Repayment of the $200 Billion U.S. taxpayers "gifted" Texas in the S&L bailout. 

Horsey: If we agree to let Texas secede peacefully, " there have to be some guidelines to this deal. Texans cannot just get up from the table and leave a bill for somebody else to pay. Texas must pay its share of the national debt. It was a former governor of Texas who racked up the major part of that bill by giving his rich friends a huge tax cut and then buying two wars and a prescription drug plan on credit.

"Also, the new Republic of Texas must provide safe passage to all the Texas liberals who may want out. We do not want to see Austin become another West Berlin isolated in a vast, hostile territory…. 

"And one more stipulation: When the Latino population finally reaches a majority in Texas and decides to head a little further back into history by reuniting Texas with Mexico, all you secessionists cannot come crying to us, pleading to be taken back into the United States. 

"By then, we will be done messing with Texas. If you are upset, take your grievances to Mexico City."

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